Police Officers Raided Someone's Home Over A Fake Twitter Accounthttp://www.businessinsider.com/parody-twitter-police-raid-2014-4/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:08:10 -0400Paul Szoldrahttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/5352000f69bedd2665c60a43Quixote34Sat, 19 Apr 2014 00:48:15 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5352000f69bedd2665c60a43
There's actually nothing surprising about Twitter parodists being viciously tracked down by the police, because if we don't speak up for everybody's rights, we better be ready for our own rights to be trampled on when we least expect it. It starts with criminalizing deadpan satire in the form of "Gmail confessions," and from there it moves to criminalizing Twitter parodies. See the documentation of America's leading criminal-satire case at:
<a href="http://raphaelgolbtrial.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://raphaelgolbtrial.wordpress.com/</a>
and consider, in particular, the NACDL's statement that if certain individuals "feel aggrieved by online speech with academic value, they have remedies in tort," rather than in criminal courts.
<a href="http://raphaelgolbtrial.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/raphael-golb-amicus-brief.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://raphaelgolbtrial.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/raphael-golb-amicus-brief.pdf</a>
The "Gmail confession" case, despite being widely reported on in the press, has been ignored by nearly every legal commentator in the country, so it's not at all surprising that the police now feel free to go after the creators of Twitter accounts embarrassing to wealthy and powerful members of the community, whether they be politicians, university presidents, or anyone else ordinary people might choose to mimic and mock on the Internet.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/535131786da811054649ed3dkrypticFri, 18 Apr 2014 10:06:48 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/535131786da811054649ed3d
Sure looks like this is a massive violation of First Amendment rights.
Slap suit needed here.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5350f3c46bb3f7a879d08614BrandonAFri, 18 Apr 2014 05:43:32 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5350f3c46bb3f7a879d08614
Isn't anyone going to do anything to revert back to Democracy in US and Canada? Oh, I forgot we got a TV show to watch and those chicken wings are getting cold. Democracy can wait.
There won't be a revolution till there is oppression. A satiated mass will not rise. If you are happy, your family is comfortable, there is enough lethargy inducing food, and your can be endlessly plied with fiat currency, what do you care if we have devolved into a security state, a large jail or not?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53509a546bb3f75159c11527JeffDThu, 17 Apr 2014 23:21:56 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53509a546bb3f75159c11527
Don't piss off the Police State.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/535092c3eab8ea883d5b7604Harry ReidThu, 17 Apr 2014 22:49:39 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/535092c3eab8ea883d5b7604
People like this are domestic terrorists. My sense of humor was assaulted by this domestic terrorist's activity. Anyone who claims otherwise is making up lies out of whole cloth.